Who, what, when, where and why

8.12.2015

Letizia Gambini

As our Head of Communications, Letizia spends her time keeping our community of users, supporters and developers talking to each other. Before coming to Sourcefabric, she worked in Brussels as the Communications Coordinator of the European Youth Forum and as the Director of External Relations and Funding for the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). Her passion lies in the intersection between technology, journalism and society. She grew up in Italy, but enjoys travelling all over the globe. As an avid reader and bookworm, she is an obsessive collector of editions of Le Petit Prince in all the languages of the world. She believes that dessert should be eaten first and loves having ice-cream for breakfast. What a great way to start the day!

Live Blog 3.0 enables delivering real news in real time

Today we announce the release of Live Blog 3.0 stable version, a completely revamped version of our open source live blogging software. Live Blog answers to the needs of media organisations and journalists covering breaking news or any other fast-paced event, such as the current UN Climate talks in Paris, or the celebrations of this year’s Polish National Day.

Live Blog 3.0 provides editorial teams with quite a few new features: a clean and easy to use interface, user roles to facilitate collaborative reporting, a simple embed function thanks to the connection with embed.ly, which allows for links from over 325 providers and multi-item posts.

“When we decided to rebuild Live Blog from scratch more than a year ago, we knew that we wanted a robust, scalable, professional, yet easy-to-use and flexible tool,” says Karel Petrák, Product Developer of Live Blog. “And here we are, the new Live Blog 3.0 has a modern and intuitive user interface, its output can be hosted in the cloud, user roles allow for efficient collaborative reporting, and admins can create custom themes.”

The redesigned Live Blog 3.0 relies on the so-called Superdesk core which provides all the underlying functionality, things like authentication, storage, users management, etc. Being part of the Superdesk ecosystem for journalism ensures that Live Blog is ready to easily cope with the ever-changing digital news industry.

Live Blog is powering newsrooms and news agencies worldwide. Zeit Online, the leading German news outlet has used Live Blog to cover everything from elections to chess tournaments, unrests in Ukraine or the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. Live Blog was also used to cover the 2015 earthquake emergency by Nepali Times. Currently, Live Blog is used by Climate News Mosaic to report from the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris (30 November to 11 December).